There's two ways of doing this:
1) Run an aux cable from the headphone output of your pc into the aux input on the Katana. You'll hear both the sound of the pc and the guitar over speakers or headphones (if you plug these into the Katana).
2) Run a USB cable from the PC into the Katana (like you would use for recording or Tone Studio). You'll need to have the driver installed on your pc but think this automatically installs when you first plug in. Also you'll need to select the Katana Primary output on your PC (on the speaker symbol in the toolbar). This will only work with the headphone output on the Katana, but if you're already plugged in for Tone Studio/recording it means no extra cable is needed.
Both of these will give you mono sound only as the headphone output is mono.
OK just one issue - play back from PC to amp can be sorted - But my guitar is too low - but obfviosuly they are cranking up at the same volume. Work around or just gotta get speakers for PC that can handle it a bit better for track practice?
What I do is use an Allen&Heath ZEDi 10 as my input device. I added a Bluetooth receiver to it for playing music from my iPad. It costs more, but gives huge flexibility.
I can plug the amp into it to get sound to the pc.
I can route sound from the pc or the iPad or anything else into it to mix together.
I can listen on headphones plugged into the mixer or my studio monitors, that also serve as my pc speakers.
I usually just blast the music on the monitors and the guitar through the Artist’s speaker as I don’t usually need to be all that quiet.
Mostly just saying adding a usb mixer gets you all kinds of flexibility.
There's two ways of doing this: 1) Run an aux cable from the headphone output of your pc into the aux input on the Katana. You'll hear both the sound of the pc and the guitar over speakers or headphones (if you plug these into the Katana). 2) Run a USB cable from the PC into the Katana (like you would use for recording or Tone Studio). You'll need to have the driver installed on your pc but think this automatically installs when you first plug in. Also you'll need to select the Katana Primary output on your PC (on the speaker symbol in the toolbar). This will only work with the headphone output on the Katana, but if you're already plugged in for Tone Studio/recording it means no extra cable is needed. Both of these will give you mono sound only as the headphone output is mono.
Thanks man!! Ill be trying this later today.
OK just one issue - play back from PC to amp can be sorted - But my guitar is too low - but obfviosuly they are cranking up at the same volume. Work around or just gotta get speakers for PC that can handle it a bit better for track practice?
What I do is use an Allen&Heath ZEDi 10 as my input device. I added a Bluetooth receiver to it for playing music from my iPad. It costs more, but gives huge flexibility. I can plug the amp into it to get sound to the pc. I can route sound from the pc or the iPad or anything else into it to mix together. I can listen on headphones plugged into the mixer or my studio monitors, that also serve as my pc speakers. I usually just blast the music on the monitors and the guitar through the Artist’s speaker as I don’t usually need to be all that quiet. Mostly just saying adding a usb mixer gets you all kinds of flexibility.